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Convert the RTF to PDF using JAVA which reads the tables in rtf document

What ways are there to convert an RTF to PDF that contains a table in the document in Windows or Unix using Java?
The option we have tried here are:
ITEXT - But the table inside the rtf document is not coming properly once converted to PDF. In short the PDF doesn't contain the Table. Here is the code gist. ITEXT for rtf to pdf java code gist
POI - Does apache POI support RTF document parsing? But I found that it is not supported. POI support for RTF
TIKA - Using Tika I am able to read the document, but the table in RTFis not parsed correctly and I don't know how to convert it to PDF. TIKA java code for reading rtf
We have looked into other options. Is possible to develop or convert RTF to PDF with Java?
Other options we looked into are in this link

Yes, its possible. Take a look at JasperReports!
http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/jasperreports-library
There is also a good API available from Jaspersoft to code your custom PDF-engine and your custom datasource. Start with iReport (UI-Editor).

xsl stylesheet for generating word documents from Java

I was wondering if there is any Java API which allows to generate Word document similarly Apache FOP does.
With FOP, it is possible to specify a style sheet which defines the layout of the page in which the data (stored in an xml file) are printed.
The Transformer object within FOP library is in charge of that.
Is there any equivalent API for word document?

With FOP, you can try XML to RTF, which Word accepts.
From their webpage, XMLmind XSL-FO Converter apparently generates:
RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+),
WordprocessingML (can be opened inWord 2003+),
Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+),
Putting FO to one side, here are 2 different approaches:
The first would be to write an XSLT to convert your XML to Flat OPC XML. Most parts in the Flat OPC XML would simply be copied there by your XSLT. (Generate that template content in Word, using "save as XML"). You'll be focusing mainly on populating the document.xml part. Word can open a Flat OPC XML file, or you can use docx4j (a project I work on) to convert Flat OPC XML to docx.
The second would be to use the docx4j Flying Saucer fork to convert your XML + CSS to docx content. See the code samples. You may need to customise it a bit; one way of feeding it CSS is this file. This actually ought to work pretty well; there is stuff there for mapping class attributes to Word styles, so if you could adorn your XML with class attributes, you could get even better results.

I will assume that your input is an XML document, or at least a CSV file.
1) Create an XSLT stylesheet to transform your input into the Word document format. The result will be a file we will call content.xml. You can apply the stylesheet to the input from Java.
2) Create a MS Word shell and put the content.xml into the shell. There are tools within Apache POI to do this.
I may have taken your question too literally. You might also be able to generate the document using Apache POI API. Also, if your MS Word document doesn't have tables, you can use Apache FOP to generate an RTF document, which can then be easily translated to a .docx file.

Apache POI provides Java APIs for reading and writing Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files.
You can checkout POI's Javadocs here.

API's For converting A file into PDF

I want some API's and some Document So that i can convert any file into PDF..
The file may be Doc , exl, ppt ..etc .
My requirement is, i have a file EX:- Doc file and i just wants to convert it into PDF.. using java .
Any suggestion will be helpful...

I would recommend you taking a look at Flying Saucer (former xhtmlrenderer) which makes creating PDF files extremely easy from XML and HTML files (internally it uses iText).
HTML/XML can be used as a intermediate format making this a quite flexible solution.

Use
http://pdfbox.apache.org/
and
http://poi.apache.org/

If you want to generate a PDF from an XML document, you can try Apache FOP, which follows the XSL-FO standard.
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
So a smart process could be: extract data from your various document formats using POI, odftoolkit (for OenDocument) or other tools, inject them into an XML container, and then translate them into PDF using FOP.

Apache's poi API is best for convert any file to pdf

You can use Itext . It is well documented and comes with ton of examples.

Creating PDF, HTML, and optionally RTF documents from the same source using Java?

I was looking at using iText to create both a pdf and html version of a document with RTF as a possible option. According to this question this is no longer possible with iText. Is there a library that will allow me to create a document in Java and output it as both PDF and HTML? The ability to output RTF would be nice but is not required.

As that answer to the other question states, you can just use the iText RTF Library.

I have used PD4ML to convert HTML to pdf. Even though it is a commercial app. It is very reliable and supports CSS well.

JasperReports. If you look at this package it supports export to:
pdf
html
rtf
xls
xml
You have two options to create the documents:
via iReport - a visual designer for reports
via an API, where you construct everything with Java code.
Note that even though JasperReports's main function is to create reports, it can very well create other documents, with no tabular data for example.

You could also try Docmosis since that supports the output formats provided by OpenOffice (including the ones you specified) and you can often do the job with a lot less code.

Parse Pdf File and write content in word file using java

how to Parse a PDF file and write the content in word file using Java?

For parsing a PDF file in Java, you can use Apache PDFBox: http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/
For reading/writing Word (or other Office) file formats in Java, try POI: http://poi.apache.org/
Both are free.

Try the iText java library:
iText is an ideal library for developers looking to enhance web- and other applications with dynamic PDF document generation and/or manipulation.
It can be used for your parsing step.
As for generating word documents - the OpenOffice Java API might be able to generate Word compatible docs (no personal experience with this API).

You might want to try any of these:
http://incubator.apache.org/pdfbox/
https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/
Once you are reading the contents of the PDF file, you can as well store them in a ODT file or a text file. For ODT file, try http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org.
Best!

You could use iText if the source PDF is mostly text. Images and such are quite hard to handle while parsing. If it's text only, it's as easy as 10 lines of code. See the iText manual for examples.
For writing word files there's only Apache POI. It can be a little tricky to figure out, but for such a simple task it shouldn't be any problem.